Tekiah Gedolah: The Great Shofar

Tekiah Gedolah: The Great Shofar

Opening Passage: Matthew 24:29-31

Ex. 19:16-19. – What is the context? What Moed is this?

• Adonai establishes his Covenant on a Moed. . AKA?
• Third Day.
• The people are gathered. (Very Important – A .)
• A Very Loud Trumpet Sound.
  • God makes known His presence with a loud Trumpet Sound.
  • Hebrew: וְקֹל שֹׁפָר V’Kol Shofar.

Zechariah 2:6 – Israel sins, ends up scattered all over the earth, and in exile. Northern Tribes are lost during the Assyrian capitivity.

• “I have dispersed you as the of heaven.” – Important Phrase.
• Historical understandings of the has largely ignored the northern house of Israel.

Psalm 147:1-2. The rebuilding of Jerusalem, according to the Psalmist was to incorporate her .

• Jerusalem is not a metaphorical understanding. It is not a “spiritual” analogy.
• Are we to believe that the outcasts of Jerusalem were only of House Judah?
• To be clear: I am not suggesting that Christians have Israel. Deut. 30:1-4 – The diaspora was prophesied.
• The Restoration was promised by Moses just before they entered the promised land.

Ezekiel 36:22-26. – Ezekiel prophecies the regathering of the House of Israel.

• Addressed to the House of . (Does this Includes all 12 Tribes?) Speaks of YHVH vindicating His name because Israel has profaned it among the gentiles. (Nations)
• What were the circumstances of Ezekiel’s ministry? Ezekiel prophesies from .
  • What House spends 40 years in Babylonian Exile?
  • Point: At this point the House of Israel and the House of Judah were quite distinct.
  • Throughout Ezekiel he addresses House Israel and House Judah as separate entities.
• Where will Israel be gathered from? (The Nations – The Gentiles. Ha-Goyim. הַגּוֹיִם)
• And Bring them back to their land. This is known as the “.”

Isa 27:13. – Notice: Great Shofar (Trumpet) The Scattered of Assyria (Northern House) and Egypt return.

• Where do they return to? . He calls it the “Holy Mountain.” This is a place!

(See also Isa. 18:3)

Matthew 24:31 His Angels/Messengers go forth with what? A Great “”, σάλπιγξ (Gk. Salpigx)

A Shofar. What does the “Great Trumpet” Sound like? Judaism: Tekiah Gedolah.

• “Gather the Elect” – Yeshua was not speaking of the Calvinist doctrine of election. (See Psalms 105:6 & 43, LXX)
• “Four Winds”. Sound Familiar? Mark 13:27. – Notice the four winds is associated with the remotest parts of both the heavens and the earth. How many points on a Compass?

The Amidah – Synagogue, 3x daily, there is a prayer that is prayed called the Amidah. (Page 107) Read The 10^th Benediction. – Why do you think they chose it as the 10^th Blessing?

Notice: The Great Shofar. Gather the exiles. Four corners of the Earth. Gather the dispersed of Israel.

Zechariah 10:6-10.

• Vs. 6: Zechariah is prophesying to two different peoples – but they ARE brothers.
• Judah was NOT Joseph. Compassion.
• Ephraim.
• Vs. 8. He will signal the exiles by “whistling” for them. The Shofar Sound: Tekiah Gedolah. When you blow the Shofar, you are awakening something within the soul. They are being gathered.
• “I have redeemed them”. How did He buy them back? What (Who) did He give to ransom them?
• Vs. 9. Who scattered them? “They will Remember me in far countries.”
• Vs. 10. Where will the exiles end up? Gilead (Modern Day: ) & Lebanon!
  • Is there a reason why Israel is waging war in Lebanon? They will be so numerous there will be “no room” for them.

Hosea 11:9-11.

Nehemiah 1:8-9. Where is the place that He causes his name to dwell?

Isaiah 43:5-7. Notice: I will bring your offspring. (Sons & Daughters)

1 Corinthians 15:51-52.

• The Tekiah Gedolah will sound the resurrection.